Well today I had had enough the washing was mounting up and needed to be washed. So as soon as the kids were up and ready for school while waiting for the time to kiss them goodbye I started washing and to be honest I haven't stopped. Load after load has been done and hung out and brought back in now waiting to be ironed if needed(yeah right) and folded and put away.
I HATE mega wash day but for some reason can never get myself to do washing on a daily basis. I need more than standing at the washing machine loading dirty clothes and linen into the machine and waiting for it to wash.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Have we taken to bubble wrapping our kids to much.
I was recently reading something about how parents can now be charge with child neglect for allowing their children under the age of 12 to walk to and from school alone. WTF? If it's child neglect send the child workers around to my place. I allow my children to walk the 5 minute walk to school alone. I get them up get them dressed, feed them breakfast and make their lunches then it's a kiss on the cheek and out the door you go to school AROUND THE CORNER. All bar child3 who has only in the last week been allowed to walk themselves to school under the constant eye of child1.
How can giving children a little independence and self reliance be child neglect? It's not like I am shoving them out the door not dressed or without food they are fed and dressed with food to take with them for lunch their hair is brushed and everything else has been done.
How can children learn to be confident, self reliant, productive members of society as adults if we continue to wrap them up in cotton wool or bubble wrap. How do they learn things if mummy and daddy do everything for them? How do they learn to trust their instincts if they have never been taught to use them?
The answer is very easy they don't they don't learn anything and the first time they are on their own and a major crisis happens(or it could be a minor one) they fall apart because they haven't been taught or used the skills before to get themselves out/through it.
I refuse to allow my children to be wrapped in bubble wrap, they will continue to be allowed to walk to school on their own it gives them a sense of achievement and allows them a little independence, they will be allowed to ride their bikes without me hoovering over them like some control freak who can't let her children out of her sight for fear of what might happen to them. And most of all I refuse to allow fear of what might happen control my children's right to a happy carefree childhood.
How can giving children a little independence and self reliance be child neglect? It's not like I am shoving them out the door not dressed or without food they are fed and dressed with food to take with them for lunch their hair is brushed and everything else has been done.
How can children learn to be confident, self reliant, productive members of society as adults if we continue to wrap them up in cotton wool or bubble wrap. How do they learn things if mummy and daddy do everything for them? How do they learn to trust their instincts if they have never been taught to use them?
The answer is very easy they don't they don't learn anything and the first time they are on their own and a major crisis happens(or it could be a minor one) they fall apart because they haven't been taught or used the skills before to get themselves out/through it.
I refuse to allow my children to be wrapped in bubble wrap, they will continue to be allowed to walk to school on their own it gives them a sense of achievement and allows them a little independence, they will be allowed to ride their bikes without me hoovering over them like some control freak who can't let her children out of her sight for fear of what might happen to them. And most of all I refuse to allow fear of what might happen control my children's right to a happy carefree childhood.
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